Finnish High School Dropouts are proving that pop punk is far from dead with their take on Taylor Swift’s ‘Love Story’, out now!
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News Posts
Punk rock icons New Found Glory recently shared their new single ‘Beer and Blood Stains’, another taste of their upcoming album ‘Listen Up!’, set for release next month with Pure Noise Records!
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After their massive tour supporting The Offspring in Europe, Simple Plan is already coming back to the continent next year with the “Bigger Than You Think! Europe/UK tour 2026”! Don’t miss out on this!
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Pop punk band Autumn Fires announced their new EP ‘BLOOM’ to be out in February 2026 via Marshall Records and shared the first upbeat single and video with ‘Fall For You’!
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Punk rock icons New Found Glory share their latest new single ‘Treat Yourself’ and announce their next album ‘Listen Up!’ to be released in February 2026 via Pure Noise Records!
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Alkaline Trio release ‘Surprise Surprise’, the third and final Travis Barker-produced single and video, out now with Rise Records!
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Nashville based alternative pop punk artist MEGG released her new EP ‘Low Life Club’ last Friday and to celebrate unveiled a video for the song ‘Clarity’!
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Alt-rock/pop punk artist MEGG is set to release her new EP ‘Low Life Club’ on October 24 and a new single is coming soon! Check out her bratty, fearless anthems for the misfits, lovers, and loudmouths right now!
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GG Magree announced her debut album ‘Spit Love’ to be out next month via Rise Records/BMG and shared another captivatingly dark video for the new single ‘Wet Dreams’!
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Action/Adventure are back with a brand new album ‘Ever After’ in October via Pure Noise Records and shared the new single and video ‘URL’!
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Gig Reports
At the end of last year, The Offspring was traveling through Europe with special guests Simple Plan on their “Supercharged Worldwide in ’25 tour” and one of our reporters was at the stop at the ING Arena in Brussels, Belgium and was blown away with yet another great show! If you somehow missed them in Belgium, or want to see them again, The Offspring will play at Graspop 2026! So you there!
Blink-182 came down to Sportpaleis in Antwerp, Belgium, a show that almost didn’t happen, that was definitely worth the wait, and that blew our reporter’s mind! Support came from The Story So Far.
At the “Does This Look All Killer No Filler tour” stop at Vorst Nationaal in Brussels, Cassyette provided us with something new to check out while Simple Plan and Sum 41 provided a true trip though memory lane.
The old school “Brummie Hardcore Punks” of GBH came to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their debut album ‘City Baby Attacked by Rats’ and started a riot at On The Rocks in Helsinki with support from Broken Trend and Likaiset Pikkarit!
We truly believe we got to experience the new prince of modern rock on his rise to kingdom when we got to go to his Kulttuuritalo Helsinki stop on the “Life on Mars Europe tour”! What an artist, bringing new life into rock ‘n’ roll while being a genuine and down-to-earth human being. Support came from Boy Bleach.
Satanic Surfers have a special kind of bond with Belgium, or rather with the Belgium punk rock family. Their very first gig in Belgium was in Ostend actually and they were more than happy to be back. Even while it was in a tiny basement, no fucks were given this evening.
Photo Reports
On this day, we partied like it was 1994, when punk rock legends The Offspring brought their massive rock ‘n’ roll show to a sold-out Helsinki Ice Hall during their “Supercharged Worldwide European tour” with special guests Simple Plan.
Our recently joined photographer Lindy is excited to see what 2024 is going to bring for her, but for now, let’s have a look back at some of her favorite pictures she took in 2023 at shows from bands like Across the White Water Tower, Alesana, Autopsy Affair, Brand of Sacrifice, Currents, Emmure, Greyhaven, Knuckle Puck, Magg Dylan, Magnolia Parl, Midnight Threat, Norma Jean, Origami Angel, Pink Shift, Saliva, See You Space Cowboy, Silverstein, Sweet Pill, The Contactees, The SoapGirls, Virginia, and We Came As Romans!
Against The Current kicked off their European tour in Brussels with an explosive evening full of rock at Ancienne Belgique, with support from LØLØ and CallMeAmour.
Sum 41 came to set Vorst Nationaal in Belgium on fire. They brought Cassyette and Simple Plan to support them in giving everyone a great evening.
An evening of fun and enjoyment in the large and beautiful hall of the Ollympiahalle in Munich with pop punk veterans Sum 41, special guests Simple Plan and surprising discovery Cassyette as opener.
Punk rock fans were spoiled on a Saturday a couple of weeks ago when the absolute legends of hardcore punk GBH turned On The Rocks in Helsinki into a complete chaos of old school punks and new school punks dancing and partying like there’s no tomorrow. An event by Loose Mind Productions and support from Broken Trend and Likaiset Pikkarit.
YUNGBLUD at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki on his “Life on Mars Tour” was quite the rock ‘n’ roll experience. People saying that rock is dead, clearly haven’t seen this guy rockin’ the stage! With support from Boy Bleach, it was an absolutely memorable night!
Janez Detd filled played a packed Vooruit for their “Beenies & Blockheads” Rewind Show, a throwback to 1998 for an enhusiastic crowd.
Pictures of the show of The Used at The Beacham in Florida, one of the stops of their North American tour that is not to be missed!
Swedish punk rock band Satanic Surfers played their very first Belgian live show in Ostend. Now, about twenty years later, they return. This time they played in Elysée and brought Antillectual, BRLRS and Wasted 24/7.
Album Reviews
Yellowcard is back, and how! Their first new album in over a decade ‘Better Days’ is simply amazing, maybe even the surprise of the year, out with Better Noise Music. It’s almost like they’ve never been gone!
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‘Night Owls’ is a tremendous album from the Dollyrots, the band are very, very good at what they do – creating sublime pop punk albums full of vibrant, infectious, fun tunes that lift your mood and stir your heart. Released via Wicked Cool Records!
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Blink-182’s new album ‘One More Time’ brings you straightforward power chords, clean vocals and pure punk rock. Varying between different paces and energies, this will be youth sentiment taking you back a couple of decades for many people among us. Released via Columbia Records!
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Australian punkster Bonnie Fraser exorcises her demons on Stand Atlantic’s third outing ‘F.E.A.R’. Out on Hopeless Records.
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‘Going Viral’ – a truly fun release from the Canadian punks Modern Terror that will make you forget a bit about the past 2 years of pandemic misery.
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After celebrating the 10th anniversary of their album ‘Nothing Personal’ in 2019, All Time Low went back to the basics for their latest album ‘Wake Up Sunshine’. “We got back to how we started. It had been a long time since the four of us made a record under one roof. That became a central […]
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